Data does not definitively point to rising sea levels 

Scientific papers released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that claim 2014 was the “hottest year ever in recorded history” are assembled from a selection of climate data sets and data points, and undergo a regimen of adjustments. They do not claim to be definitive, they claim to show the record was broken by a minute amount, and they have been challenged by climatologists such as Dr Roy Spencer (who runs one of the US government climate satellites). 
My article (“The myth of melting ice and rising seas”, Opinion, March 21) was not about average temperatures, it was about ice melt and sea levels. The Nasa study I cited uses a satellite to make a model so precise that a lunar module could land on that ice. That’s what I meant by “the most reliable scientific research”. Incidentally, the “establishment” scientists like the ones that publish those “hottest year” papers are only claiming a 1-3mm annual rise in sea levels. They’re not exactly slam-dunking that one either.
Sam Khoury